"Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?"

“How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!”

“The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.”

“Forgive yourself - no one else will.”

“It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.”

Source : Carol Anshaw, Merrill Maguire Skaggs (2012). “Aquamarine”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I cannot be what I am not.”

“I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.”

Source : Source: bknation.org

“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.”

“Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.”